Daily Press Briefing by the Spokesperson of the Secretary-General

(p)The Secretary-General has decided to disband his Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) regarding the 29 July 2022 Incident at Olenivka in Ukraine in the absence of conditions required for the deployment of the Mission to the site.nbsp;(/p)

(p)United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today two inter-agency convoys, facilitated by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, delivered aid to two towns in the southern Khersonska oblast.nbsp;(/p)

(p)The Secretary-General is on leave in his home country, Portugal. This afternoon, in Lisbon he will receive the University of Lisbon Award, and he will make some remarks.(/p)

(p)The Security Council met this morning on the question of Syria’s reported chemical weapons programme. nbsp;(/p)

(p)This afternoon at 3 o’clock, the Security Council will have a briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question. nbsp;nbsp;(/p)

(p)United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that in the northern parts of Ethiopia, aid continues to be sent into the Tigray region.(/p)

(p)Hanaa Singer-Hamdy of Egypt took up her post as a new Resident Coordinator in Nepal on 1 January.nbsp;(/p)

(p)The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said today that four years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is in a much better place than it was earlier due to clinical care management, vaccines and treatments; but the threat from the pandemic persists.(/p)